Hi Tor, Here's what January looked like to the sysadmin team. # What's been done - Dealt with an unusual high frequency of hardware issues on physical machines. - Held a two days meeting in Brussels, just before FOSDEM, where a lot of work got done. Minutes from the meeting can be found at [minutes]. - Silvia Puglisi (hiro) has joined the sysadmin team! - The ordinary resolving of requests and bug reports, as can be followed better over at [tickets]. [minutes] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2019BrusselsAdminTeamMinutes[tickets] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/report/44 # Upcoming new things - Migration of CiviCRM to new VM's. - New VM for an evaluation of GitLab. - Continue onboarding hiro. # Fact of the month We use icinga for checking the status of the systems we're running. From the 42 types of checks we have defined, each system ends up with a catalogue of 237 unique checks. Many of these checks are for a certain service, like checking that backup files on the backup storage system are current. Tor sysadmins and service admins can be notified of problems in a variety of ways -- f.ex. on a web page, by email or through an IRC bot.